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<h1>CSE 500/490B -- Schedule</h1>

Alan Borning

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<LI>Jan 2: Overview (Alan Borning) <BR>
     Readings: Miller, Chapters 1-3
<LI>Jan 4: Internet Technology and History (Terry Gray)

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<LI>Jan 9: guest speaker -- Phil Bereano <BR>
<LI>Jan 11: public policy issues <BR>
   Readings: Miller, Chapter 4;
   Howard Besser, "From Internet to Information Superhighway", 
   in <em>Resisting the Virtual Life</em>; Gary Chapman's article 
   <a href="http://blake.oit.unc.edu/nr/articles/wired.html">Barbed Wire</a> 
   from the New Republic;
    and if you have time, start reading Bill Gates, <em>The Road Ahead</em>

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<LI>Jan 16: project planning; public policy issues continued <BR>
   Readings: Miller, Chapter 5
<LI>Jan 18: guest speaker -- Marlin Blizinsky, "The Regulatory Framework 
   for the NII" <BR>
   Readings: George Guilder, <a
href="http://homepage.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/fiber.html">Into the
Fibersphere</a>, in Forbes ASAP Dec 7 1992; John Browning, 
   <a
href="http://www.hotwired.com/wired/2.09/features/universal.access.html">Universal
Service (An Idea Whose Time Is Past)</a>, <em>Wired</em>, Sept 1994.  <BR>
   Other background reading:
      <a href="http://www.scn.org/scripts/menus/s/sii/menu">Seattle 
        Information Infrastructure Proposal</a> 
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<LI>Jan 23: government and industrial agendas <BR>
     Readings: Miller, Chapters 6-7 
<LI>Jan 25: guest speaker -- James Anderson, UW School of Fisheries, 
     "Environmental Conflicts and the World Wide Web".
      See the <a href="http://www.cqs.washington.edu">UW Columbia Basin
         Research Pages</a>, in particular the online models.

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<LI>Jan 30: universal service <BR>
    Readings:  Miller, Chapter 8; John Browning article (see Jan 18)
<LI>Feb 1: discussion of Bill Gates, <em>The Road Ahead</em>

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<LI>Feb 6 guest speaker -- Sheryl Burgstahler, "DO-IT: developing an
     electronic community" <BR>
     See the <a href="http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit">DO-IT home page</a>
<LI>Feb 8: project presentation -- Information Haves and Have Nots 
    (Paul Bock, Richard Chinn, Darrin Curtis, Joe Heitzeberg) <BR>
Relevant links: see the <a href="links.html#libraries">Libraries</a> and <a
href="links.html#haves-havenots">Information Haves and Have-Nots</a>
sections of the class links page.

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<LI>Feb 13: discussion of Miller, Chapter 9, "Democracy and Free Speech"
<BR> In this session I'll also talk about politics and the Web, using the
following pages as examples.  Federal government: <a
href="http://www.senate.gov/senator/gorton.html">Senator Slade Gorton</a>;
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/~murray">Senator Patty Murray</a>; <a
href="http://www.house.gov/white/">Representative Rick White</a>.  City
government: <a
href="http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/seattle/mayor/mayor.htm">Norm
Rice</a>.  Campaigns: <a href="http://www.dole96.com">Bob Dole for
President</a> (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.dole96.org">Bob
Dole for President</a>).  Issues (guns): <a
href="http://www.nra.org/">National Rife Association</a>.  Issues
(progressive politics):
 <a href="http://www.webactive.com/">WebActive</a>.  Issues (conservative
Christian politics): <a href="http://www.cc.org">Christian Coalition</a>.
Issues (prison activists): <a
href="http://weber.u.washington.edu/~lursa/PLN/pln.html">Prison Legal
News</a>, <a href="http://www.igc.apc.org/spr/">Stop Prisoner Rape</a>.

<LI>Feb 15: guest speaker -- Doug Klunder, American Civil Liberties Union

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<LI>Feb 20: the media, politics, and the NII; continuation of discussion of
Miller, Chapter 9, "Democracy and Free Speech" <BR>
Also: talk by Martin Tompa on public key cryptography, Sieg 224, 3:30 pm
<LI>Feb 22: Miller, Chapter 10, "Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Encryption"

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<LI>Feb 27: guest speaker -- Ellen Spertus, "Gender Issues".  Relevant
links: see the <a href="links.html#gender">Gender Issues</a> section of the
class links page.
<LI>Feb 29: project presentations: Becky Westbrook, "The Internet and
Foreign Language Education".
Relevant links: 
<a href="http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/HumanResources.html">WWW 
Foreign Language Resources</a>;
<a href="http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html">Teaching
with the Web</a>;
<a href="http://www.agoralang.com:2410/org.html">Academic
Organizations</a> (for FL teachers).

John Davis, "The Evolution of the Internet into a Commercial Entity".
Relevant links: 
<a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu:80/gvu/user_surveys/">GVU's WWW User
     Survyes</a>, 
<a href="http://www.cdnetguide.ca/index.htm">Aardvark Internet Marketing
     Group</a>, 
<a href="http://www.commerce.net/">Commerce Net</a>, 
<a href="http://www.digicash.com/publish/online.html">DigiCash 
    Publications - Online Cash Checks</a>, 
<a href="http://www.digicash.com/publish/bigbro.html">DigiCash 
     Publications - Security Without Identification: Card  Computers to
    Make Big Brother Obsolete</a>,
<a
href="http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/t/techreview/www/articles/may95/Brody.html">Internet@crossroads.$$$</a>.
Also recommended: "Manufacturing Consent", a video about Noam Chomsky's 
thinking and writing about the media.  Available in 
Odegaard library Media section (free but you have to watch it there), or
rent it from Scarecrow Video.

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<LI>Mar 5: project presentations: Daniel Wood, "Advertising on the Net";
           Erik Selberg, "Copyright and Intellectual Property issues"
<LI>Mar 7: project presentation: Shuichi Koga and Sachin Bhatia,
      "Telecommunication Issues from an International Perspective".
      Course evaluations and wrapup.

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